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Kate Bush will never release an album as good as Hounds of Love. David Bowie is 64, he and Bob Dylan will most likely never make any more hits like Life on Mars, or Bob's Tangled up in Blue, Like a Rolling Stone (or my favorite Blowing in the Wind.) Joni Mitchell will never release an album ever again. Madonna will never release an album as good as Ray of Light. And Tori Amos will never be as fiery, insane, bruised, sparky and playful as she was in the first half of her career. It’s impossible. She is happily married now and she has a daughter and (one hopes) a lovely and fairly ordinary family life that does not involve kidnap or torture or outrage. This doesn’t mean she has to release dull music, of course. But you have to readjust your expectations.